BundyRoy
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I've got to say what a great website/Forum. So much info. I've had a little trouble waiting for my activation email and whilst I was waiting found even more info to answer some of the questions I was busting to find the answers to.
Anyway, a little about myself. I'm in central northern NSW and have been doing a few static Christmas displays for the last few years. Thought I'd hit the big time last year when I discovered the 20m 5050 LED strips with a controller. How wrong I was. Just out of curiosity I went on to google/youtube and looked up Christmas lights. My world opened up there and then. The yanks have taken it to a new level. Amazing and fantastic stuff.
Cut a long story short I now have a LOR showtime central starter package on the way from USA. Can't wait. Probably should have asked a few questions on here before purchasing but thought, what the heck, if they can do it, surely I can work it out. I also didn't know about here beforehand either.
So now I've got a 16 channels to run and a show to program. I've had a look at the software and I think I have the basics worked out so that I can at least get something together. I'm sure there will be questions. My first steps were to take an inventory of what lights I have and to map out a plan of where I want to put them in the yard before I start programming.
The inventory process has brought me back to earth with a bang. Here I was thinking I had heaps of lights and would probably have to double up some on a few of the channels. Counted them and I only have 12 led strings (varying from
200 lights to 600 lights), 2 led reindeers, a set of candy canes, a star and the 20m (2x10m) LED 5050 magic dream colour strip. Need more. Just can't work out why all my interests/sports seem to have never ending wish lists that cost lumps of money.
I'm sure I will get more stuff over time, just probably not to much before this Christmas unfortunately.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to working my way through the issues with your help and contributing where possible. This Chrissy is going to be great.
Roy
Anyway, a little about myself. I'm in central northern NSW and have been doing a few static Christmas displays for the last few years. Thought I'd hit the big time last year when I discovered the 20m 5050 LED strips with a controller. How wrong I was. Just out of curiosity I went on to google/youtube and looked up Christmas lights. My world opened up there and then. The yanks have taken it to a new level. Amazing and fantastic stuff.
Cut a long story short I now have a LOR showtime central starter package on the way from USA. Can't wait. Probably should have asked a few questions on here before purchasing but thought, what the heck, if they can do it, surely I can work it out. I also didn't know about here beforehand either.
So now I've got a 16 channels to run and a show to program. I've had a look at the software and I think I have the basics worked out so that I can at least get something together. I'm sure there will be questions. My first steps were to take an inventory of what lights I have and to map out a plan of where I want to put them in the yard before I start programming.
The inventory process has brought me back to earth with a bang. Here I was thinking I had heaps of lights and would probably have to double up some on a few of the channels. Counted them and I only have 12 led strings (varying from
200 lights to 600 lights), 2 led reindeers, a set of candy canes, a star and the 20m (2x10m) LED 5050 magic dream colour strip. Need more. Just can't work out why all my interests/sports seem to have never ending wish lists that cost lumps of money.
I'm sure I will get more stuff over time, just probably not to much before this Christmas unfortunately.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to working my way through the issues with your help and contributing where possible. This Chrissy is going to be great.
Roy
